Resume

experience
Senior Designer at Citilabs — Alameda, California. 7/08 - present
Designing a wide range of marketing materials (ads, logos, newsletters, emails, web graphics, trade show booths and more) along with user interface designs for a transportation modeling software company.

Freelance Graphic designer — 5/02 - present
Freelance clients have included: Water on Marrs, Scout Labs, Focus Design, AMR Research, Firewood Inc., Terry Healey, Iron Horse Ventures, TripAdvisor.com, NLG.com, NeoVintage, No Karma Records, Contraphonic Records, Yolo County Courts, Flair Communications, Chicago Underground Film Festival, Skyscraper Magazine, tUMULt records and many others.

Contract Senior Designer at Scout Labs — San Francisco, California. 8/07 - 2/08
Designed comps from wireframes for complex, web based software. Created Flash tour, company blog and other marketing materials in a high pressure startup environment.

Contract Graphic Designer at the Discovery Channel Store — Berkeley, California. 4/06 - 4/07
Worked with visual merchandising team to document feature setups, enhanced photos in Photoshop and laid out monthly 60+ page store directives.

Graphics Associate at AMR Research — Boston, Massachusetts. 5/04 - 6/05
Created charts and conceptual graphics for research and laid out reports. Redesigned report template, designed special publications and improved report presentation for the web.

Co-lead designer for The Business of Holidays book project — Published by Monacelli Press in 2004. 1/02 - 1/04
Co-designer and contributing writer of 280-page, full color, design/cultural studies book for a major New York art and design press. Reviewed in the New York Times, Print Magazine, NPR and the Chicago Tribune.

Teaching Assistant for Assistant Professor Georgia Backos — School of the Art Institute of Chicago - Chicago, Illinois. 1/02 - 5/02
Critiqued student design work and assisted professor in running class activities.

Intern at the Newberry Library for the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries Project — Chicago, Illinois. 6/01 - 8/01
Created a model for the digital delivery of maps and information.

Web designer at Adventure Sports Online — Woodland, California. 9/99 - 6/00
Responsible for designing and implementing web sites for businesses in the outdoors industry.

Graphic designer at Messenger Post Newspapers — Rochester, New York. 3/99 - 7/99
Design and layout of advertisements and special sections for a large number of local papers and other publications.

education
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Master of Fine Arts in Visual Communication. 5/03

The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Post Baccalaureate Certificate in Visual Communication. 5/01

University of California, Santa Barbara
Bachelor of Arts with honors: Art Studio (Painting & Printmaking). 8/97

awards
Fellowship Award
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago. 5/03

William Dole Memorial Scholarship
University of California, Santa Barbara. 6/97

highlights
Expert in: Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, Quark, Dreamweaver
Skilled in: Typetool, Flash, AfterEffects, Final Cut Pro, Lightwave 3D, Protools
Comfortable with hand coding html, css and action script along with customizing WordPress templates for blogs and CMS.

Able to sketch and draw on paper and with digital tools.

Quick learner, creative, collaborative, hardworking with a positive attitude.

Can play drums, guitar and piano and currently learning the Theremin.

Actively creating fine art, printing and music.